The field of conceptual modeling and technology mapping is undergoing significant developments, with a focus on creating comprehensive frameworks for understanding and representing complex systems. Researchers are working on novel methodologies to map the universe of emerging technologies, utilizing diverse data sources and developing new indices to assess the landscape of these technologies. Conceptual modeling is being adapted to accommodate emerging technologies, with a emphasis on carving and specifying conceptual pictures of subject domains. The use of bigraphs and other graph-rewriting formalisms is being explored to model real-time systems and represent digital clocks. Object-centric processes are also being investigated, with a focus on developing frameworks that can handle complex data types and object-aware synchronization. Noteworthy papers include:

• Cosmos 1.0: a multidimensional map of the emerging technology frontier, which introduces a novel methodology for mapping emerging technologies and creates a comprehensive dataset of 23,544 technologies.
• Object-centric Processes with Structured Data and Exact Synchronization, which presents a framework for modeling object-centric processes with complex data types and synchronization mechanisms.